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His speech at the Fourth Annual MWBE Forum was 12 minutes. His Q&A with reporters was 20. In his first public appearance in the state capital since July, Gov. Andrew Cuomo ran the gamut with Albany-based reporters late Wednesday morning. He discussed everything from the talker of the day (a Cuomo spokesman being looped in […] More »

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo is out with another attack ad that casts his GOP opponent, Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, as an “ultra-conservative,” this time employing one of Astorino’s fellow Republicans – Laurence “Larry” Rockefeller – to deliver the message. It would be fair to characterize Rockefeller as a moderate – or “Rocky” – Republican. He’s… More »

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The state Democratic Committee has released its report — previewed by Ken Lovett in the Daily News — on donations to Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino from firms that do business with the county. As Lovett notes, the report’s comparison of donations to Astorino and to Cuomo isn’t apples-to-apples since it only looks at money […] More »

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Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, Republican candidate for governor, spoke in front of the federal courthouse in White Plains this morning to announce a new campaign ad that accuses Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo of corruption in connection with the Moreland Commission on Public Corruption. The governor, who created the panel,… Read More ?

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo spoke with reporters late Sunday morning about his visit to Afghanistan — the second trip overseas in as many months for a governor who has largely been a stay-at-home executive. My colleague Lauren Stanforth reports: Gov. Andrew Cuomo said his clandestine visit to Afghanistan is helping him to learn the best anti-terrorism strategies for […] More »

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Moments after news of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s surprise trip to Afghanistan broke, the governor’s re-election campaign announced that he has accepted to invitations to debate before the Nov. 4 general election. Cuomo has agreed to one debate upstate, and one in New York City. The upstate debate will be sponsored by The Buffalo News and WNED-WBFO (not,… More »

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With just six weeks remaining before the November general election, Gov. Andrew Cuomo is in Afghanistan with a bipartisan delegation of governors at the invitation of the U.S. Department of Defense, which is sponsoring the visit, his office announced this afternoon. As is fairly standard with these sorts of overseas trips to high security zones,… More »

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Just in from Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s press office: Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo today arrived in Afghanistan with a bipartisan delegation of governors at the invitation of the U.S. Department of Defense, which is sponsoring the visit. During the trip, Cuomo is receiving a series of briefings from senior U.S. Department of Defense officials on counterterrorism […] More »

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo offered a singular answer, or something, when asked by Susan Arbetter of WCNY’s The Capital Pressroom about the EPA’s rejection of a half-billion dollars in cheap loans from a federal clean-water fund that the state had hoped to direct to the construction of the new Tappan Zee Bridge. How, Arbetter asked, would […] More »

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